Shubi, beautiful post.
At this point Thank You seems to be insufficient to show our gratitude.
I totally agree on all the points especially no 1. It is so easy for people to look at the way the characters are dressed and immediately label them as regressive or saas bahu just because they wear pallus on their heads. Had they had the patience to see the way the CVs unravel the story layer by layer they would have been able to understand what the CVs are trying to achieve beneath the outward appearances of sari clad bahus.
Also, thank you for Mittals for giving a completely different perspective on what love is. It is not just passion or eye-locks or duppatta catching. It is not just breaking up and hating each other and pining for each other. Love may be all that but it so much beyond that too. It is in every little things that Yash and Aarti do together to make a better life for themselves and their family. The way they look at each other, the way they understand each other, the way they support each other and also in the way they defy each other if they have difference of opinions.
So yes, Thank You may not be enough but that is all we have to give the Mittals and the beautiful cast.